Climatic impacts and humanitarian problems use UK's nuclear weapons

The briefing argues that the use of nuclear weapons from one UK Trident submarine would cause massive smoke generation and sharp climate cooling, resulting in global crop failure and threatening 1 billion lives, alongside over 10 million immediate deaths from explosions.

• The detonation of nuclear warheads from a single UK Trident submarine would generate vast amounts of smoke, leading to sharp climate cooling and global crop failure that would threaten the lives of approximately 1 billion people.
• In addition to the climatic effects, the use of these weapons would cause the direct deaths of more than 10 million people through fallout, fire, and blast.

APA

Webber, P. (2013). Climatic impacts and humanitarian problems use UK's nuclear weapons. Scientists for Global Responsibility. https://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/climatic-impacts-and-humanitarian-problems-use-uk-s-nuclear-weapons

Chicago

Webber, Philip. Climatic impacts and humanitarian problems use UK's nuclear weapons. Scientists for Global Responsibility, 2013. https://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/climatic-impacts-and-humanitarian-problems-use-uk-s-nuclear-weapons.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{webber2013climatic, author = {Webber, Philip}, title = {{Climatic impacts and humanitarian problems use UK's nuclear weapons}}, institution = {Scientists for Global Responsibility}, year = {2013}, month = feb, url = {https://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/climatic-impacts-and-humanitarian-problems-use-uk-s-nuclear-weapons}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }